Can the World’s Biggest Sustainability Database Measure a Product’s True Material Weight?
A new study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology shows that the ecoinvent database can now directly calculate the Raw ...
Tag: Life Cycle Assessment
Storage Time Quietly Erodes the Climate Case for Bagasse Biogas
New research shows that prolonged storage of sugarcane bagasse lowers methane yields, shifts optimal food-to-microorganism ratios downward, and raises the ...
Steel, Copper and the Hidden Footprint of Offshore Wind Farms
A combined life cycle assessment and data envelopment analysis of twenty UK offshore wind farms identifies steel and copper as ...
AI Turns Tangled Sustainability Studies Into Searchable Knowledge Graphs
Researchers have built a framework that uses large language models and knowledge graphs to automatically extract, structure, and query life ...
China Opens Its Industrial Secrets: TianGong Database Brings Transparency to Life Cycle Assessment
A large Chinese-led research collaboration has released TianGong, an open-source life cycle assessment database containing 2,000 high-resolution unit process datasets ...
Circular Economy Software Is Failing Where It Matters Most: The Design Table
A systematic review of 231 studies finds that decision support systems for circular manufacturing remain fragmented, with only 5 percent ...
New Global Albedo Dataset Could Reshape How We Count the Climate Cost of Land Use
Researchers have built a global dataset of realistic surface albedo values for 22 land cover types, revealing that simplified methods ...
Red Pigment Doubles as Strength Booster in Colored Mortar, Study Finds
A new study shows iron oxide red pigment can strengthen colored mortar by up to 16 percent while delivering stable, ...
Plant-Powered Nanoparticles Push Corrosion Protection Toward 99 Percent
A new review shows that pairing plant extracts with green-synthesized nanoparticles lifts corrosion inhibition efficiency from roughly 69-96 percent to ...
Future Grid, Not Recycling Bins, Cuts a University Building’s Carbon Footprint
A prospective life cycle assessment of a University of Queensland building shows that switching to a projected 2050 electricity grid ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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